Someone To Live For
Chapter 6
A week later, Elizabeth wakes up, and sees Lucky sleeping in the chair next to her bedside. She still couldn't remember one thing about their relationship or anything about her life. But she knew that he was a good man.
Why I can't remember anything? I have a wonderful husband and a son. I want to remember the day that I gave birth to my son, the day that I married my husband, the first time I meet him, our kiss… I want to remember everything. She then grabbed the pad and threw it across the room, waking Lucky up.
He ran to her side. "Elizabeth… I know this is hard for you." She looked at him, and just sighed.
He grabbed her hand. "You're going to get better."
Forgetting that she couldn't talk, she tried to talk.
He looked at her. "Elizabeth, don't hurt your voice." he said, as he run to the floor, and got the pad. He then put the pad on her lap. She scribbled something on it.
When I am going to be able to talk and remember everything?
Lucky sighed. "I don't know, I wish I did. But I'm going to be here by your side."
She looked at Lucky, she could see why she would fall in love with this guy, but how long would he stay with her, if she never remembered anything. Suddenly there was a knock at the door; Laura was standing in front of the doorway, with Cameron in her arms.
"Audrey needed to do something, so I said that I would bring Cam by to see Elizabeth." Elizabeth remembered seeing this woman yesterday. She was Lucky's mother, and what she remembered was that this woman has been ill for quite a while, and had just returned to town. Laura placed Cameron on the bed. She looked at Elizabeth and could see how afraid she was.
"Elizabeth, don't be afraid. Cameron doesn't know that you don't know him; he doesn't know anything. "
Elizabeth smiled at Cameron, as he started to crawl up to her. He had a toy in his hand; Elizabeth started to play with him. Lucky and Laura moved away from the bedside.
Laura turned to Lucky. "How's she doing?"
"Frustrated "
Laura looked at Lucky. "I would be too if I didn't have my voice or my memory, but you are there for her, that it is all that she needs."
Lucky hugged Laura. "Thanks mom, I just don't know how much I can do for her."
"Just
love her." Laura looked at her son, smiling at Elizabeth
with
Cameron.
"You helped her through one of the rough times in
her life; you are going to be able to help
her with this
too."
"What if I can't?" Lucky said, sadly. Laura put her hand on Lucky's shoulder. "You will, I know it."
Elizabeth looked
at Cameron. She didn't feel anything for this little boy,
not
like how a mother should. She doesn't feel anything for him. It's
like
he is someone else's kid not mine. Would she ever remember
her son? And if
not, what would happen to him?
"Mommy..."
Cameron said, as he started to crawl near her. She grabbed a hold
of
him, and gently moved him away from her.
Lucky walked up to
Elizabeth
and
smiled. "I know Cameron can be tiring, and you need your rest."
he said, as he grabbed a hold of Cameron.
"Say goodbye to Mommy."
Cameron waved at Elizabeth.
Lucky
then turned to Elizabeth. "I'll be back soon." he said,
as he looked
at Cameron." he said, as he left the room.
Laura
walked over to Elizabeth's
bedside, and sat down. "You weren't tired,
were you?"
Laura said, as she looked at Elizabeth. "I know how hard this is
for you. Your son is like a stranger to you, isn't he?"
Laura
sighed. "I'm having the same problem right now too."
Elizabeth wrote
something in the pad, and handed it to Laura.
What are you talking about?
Laura looked at Elizabeth. "You know that I have been in a hospital for many years."
Elizabeth nodded.
"Well
I returned to town not too long ago, and well let's just sometimes
it
feel like my own kids are strangers to me. I know it's not
the same thing, I
can remember my children, but the thing is that
all I can remember is how I
left them. My little girl is a grown
woman. Lucky is married and has a
family. My other son could be
becoming a father. I just keep on thinking to
myself that they
are like how they were before. They don't need their mom
anymore.
So I know how you are feeling, Elizabeth. Just don't try too hard;
Cameron doesn't understand anything that is happening right
now. Just love
him."
You should listen to your own
advice. Your children might be grown up, but
they will always
need you. I don't remember you, but I can tell how much
Lucky
loves you and is happy you are here with him.
Laura smiled. "I guess I should listen to my own advice."
Laura looked at Elizabeth. "You have grown into a wonderful woman."
Elizabeth
smiled at
the woman she didn't know, but she had a feeling
that she was
someone that she could count on.
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Lucky then
returned to the room, and saw Laura and Elizabeth smiling. "You
two seem to be having a good time."
Laura turned around. "As soon as Elizabeth gets out of the hospital, I want you to have dinner with you, Lulu and Nikolas.
Elizabeth wrote something on the pad.
Thank you for everything
"My
pleasure." Laura said, as she walked out of the room. Elizabeth
smiled
at
Lucky, as she grabbed his hand. He sat down on the chair. "Are
you doing
okay? I know that I shouldn't have let Cameron come
in the room so soon. I
know it is hard for you."
Lucky…
don't apologize. Yes it was hard for me. But he's my son, I have
to
be there for him no matter if I know who he is or
doesn't.
Lucky nodded. "Just take your time, Elizabeth.
We have all the time in the
world."
I'm pretty lucky to have found you.
Lucky laughed. "That's not what you said when we first meet,"
I must have been stupid then.
"You must have." he said, smiling.
Tony Jones then walked into the room. "How are you feeling today?"
Okay
Tony looked at Lucky and
Elizabeth both.
"Because of the injury, your legs
aren't doing as well, so I
would like you to have physical therapy. I would
like to start
that today."
When will my voice going to come back?
Tony
grabbed a chair. "That is something I can't answer, how is
your voice
feeling?"
"It's feels like I want
to talk, but I can't, like I say the words, but they
don't
come out.
"That's a good sign. Just take your time. It
will happen slowly, but it
will." Tony said. "Your
physical therapist will be by to see you in the
afternoon."
Tony said, as he walked out of the room.
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Lucky
was sitting by Elizabeth's
bedside when he saw Mac outside of the
room. He turned to
Elizabeth and
saw that she had fallen asleep. He quietly
walked out of the
room. "Mac, any news about Manny?" he asked. Mac shakes
his head. "
Lucky looked through the window at
Elizabeth. "I want the guard to stay."
Lucky said,
looking at the guard.
"Lucky… you are here all the
time; I don't think anybody is going to be able
to get into the
room." Lucky nodded. "I know that, but I just want to be
sure." Mac nodded. " I understand." He said, as he
walked away from Lucky.
Lucky was talking with the guards when
he heard a noise in Elizabeth's
room.
He run into the room and he saw that she was
awake.
"Lu..." Elizabeth said,
quietly. Lucky run as fast as he could out of the
room, and told
the nurse to get Dr. Jones. When Lucky got back to the room,
Elizabeth was
sitting up in the bed. "It hurts..."
Lucky hugged
her. "I know it does. Your voice is slowly coming back."
Elizabeth looked
at him sadly. "D.."
Dr. Jones walked into the room.
"Try not to talk too much." Elizabeth
looked
at Dr. Jones. "My.. voice…"
"Yes your voice
is back, but I want you to take it easy. How are you
feeling?"
Dr. Jones asked. Elizabeth at
him. "It's
hurts, my throat."
"That's normal. Just take it
easy." he said, as he walked out of the room.
Lucky smiled
at Elizabeth. "I knew that you would get better."
She
looked at Lucky. "Still don't remember you." He put his
arms around
her. "Don't talk right now Elizabeth. It's
going to be okay." he said. She
looked into his eyes, and
she believe that it was going to be okay.
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The
physical therapist walked into Elizabeth's
room. She walked up to
Elizabeth's
bedside. "My name is Dr. Hunter.
"How are you feeling today? "
"I…" Elizabeth
started to
coughed. The doctor looked at Elizabeth. "I heard
that you
just got your voice back. I don't want you to do too much today. We
are going to just doing a few things okay?"
"No…
I want to get out of here." The physical therapist looked at
Elizabeth.
"You need to get your strength back
first."
"First, we are going to just a few
exercises, nothing too much." Elizabeth
sighed.
She just wanted to get out of the hospital and back to her life.
Even though she didn't know what that was.
How is she
supposed to go back to her life, why she couldn't even remember
it? How long was Lucky going to wait for her?
"Okay,
Elizabeth, we are going to try just a few steps." The physical
therapist said, as she helped Elizabeth out
of the bed.
Elizabeth took a few steps.
"You are doing great, Elizabeth." The physical therapist said.
"It hurts." Elizabeth
yelled. The
physical therapist looked at Elizabeth.
"I think that's good
for today." She said.
"No… I want to do more."
Elizabeth replied.
The therapist shook her head.
"You don't want to overdo
yourself, it will make things worse." she said, as
she
helped Elizabeth back
into the bed.
"I'll come by and see you tomorrow."
Elizabeth sighed.
"Fine." she said, as she laid her head on the pillow. She
just wanted everything to go back to normal, whatever that
was.
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Later, Lucky walked into Elizabeth's
room. "How are you feeling?" he asked. She
looked at
him. "I want to go home." Lucky grabbed a chair. "I
know you do,
but you still need to get better."
She
then looked at the bag he was holding.
"What's in the bag?"
she asked. He smiled slightly at her. "I brought you
Eli's."
"Ribs" she said. He looked at her. "You remember that." He said, with a big smile. She was starting to remember everything.
Elizabeth shook
her head. "No, sorry, Lucky. I just smell them." Elizabeth
looked
at Lucky's face, and could see that he was upset that she didn't
remember.
"I know that you thought I was remembering
something, I'm sorry. I know this is
hard for you. You know you
can leave; I'm not going to be upset. Lucky
looked at
Elizabeth. "I'm not going to leave you, Elizabeth. I love
you."
"But I don't remember loving you."
Elizabeth said.
Lucky grabbed her hand.
" I didn't want to tell you this
right now, but I once forget that I loved
you."
"You
forget that you loved me?" Elizabeth said,
with this confused look on
her face. Lucky laughed. "Let's
just say it is a really long story, and
I'll tell you it one
day, I just want to show you if we can deal with that,
we can
deal with anything."
Lucky then grabbed one of her ribs.
"What are you doing?" Elizabeth said,
laughing.
"Well you weren't eating it." Lucky said.
"I'm eating it now." she said, as she
grabbed it from him. Lucky smiled to
himself. It was just like
old times; just maybe everything was going to be
okay.
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A few days later,
Lucky was walking towards Elizabeth's
room, when he heard her yelling at the
physical therapist. "I
think I know what I can or can't do. I can walk."
Lucky
stood in the doorway, watching Elizabeth fighting
with the physical
therapist. The physical therapist turned to
Lucky. "Maybe you can help her."
She said, as she
walked away from Elizabeth. Lucky walked over to Elizabeth.
"I
see you are giving the therapist a hard time."
"I
just want to walk, how hard is that." Elizabeth
yelled.
Lucky looked at
Elizabeth. "I know it is hard for you, but
the therapist is just trying to
help, but I got some great news
for you."
"What?"
"You are able to
go home tomorrow. "Lucky said, with this smile on his face.
She
looked at him. "Where is exactly home?" she asked.
"With me and Cameron."
Elizabeth shook
her head. "I can't go home with you. I don't know who you
are. You are going to expect for everything to go back to normal.
That is
not going to happen."
Lucky grabbed her hand. "I don't expect anything, Elizabeth."
"I
can't, Lucky. I just can't. I want more than anything to go home
with you
and Cameron, but I can't do that. Not when I don't
know who I am, it's not
fair for you"
"Elizabeth."
Lucky said, looking at her. "I promise you, I won't expect
anything from you. We will just be friends."
"You're
my husband… we're not suppose to be just friends. I can't deal
with
this, just go." Elizabeth yelled."
Elizabeth said,
as she tried to walk back
to the bed, but she fall onto the
ground.
Lucky tried to help her. "Just leave."
Elizabeth said.
Lucky wouldn't listen
to her; he helped her back into the bed.
She looked at him. "Thank you,
Lucky, now you can
go."
"Don't push me away."
"It's
the best thing I can do for you, Lucky. I see the way that you look
at
me, it's the way that a husband looks at his wife, but I'm
not that person
anymore. I don't know who I am anymore. I don't
want you to think that
everything is going to be okay, that's
not fair for you."
"So what it's better that will
just leave me. Elizabeth Spencer, we have
been through a lot, I'm
not going to let a little thing… like memory loss
made me lose
you."
Elizabeth then
started to cry." 'Don't do this, Lucky. Don't be this
sweet
romantic guy." Lucky smiled at her. I will fight for
you, Elizabeth."
She glanced at him. "I'm not the
same person that you fall in love with. I
don't remember
anything about you. Is that really someone you want to be
with?"
Lucky put her arms around her, and stroke her hair.
Suddenly Elizabeth got a flashback of Lucky in her arms, trying to calm her down and make her better. She felt so safe that day in his arms; she felt the same way right now.
Lucky looked at Elizabeth. "Did you
remember something?" She shakes her
head. "Nothing
really, it's just a flash, I don't even know if it is
real."
"Just tell me about it." Lucky replied.
"No, Lucky. It was nothing; you were just
hugging me, that is all. It wasn't
a memory, it was just come,
and then it went right away." She then laid her
head on the
pillow. "Could you just leave me?"
"Elizabeth."
"Lucky,
go check on Cameron." She then looked at Lucky. "You're a
great
father, he's lucky to have you."
"I love that little boy like he is my own son."
Elizabeth looked at Lucky. "I thought he was your son."
He shakes his
head. "No, but I see him as my son. His father is dead; you
never had a relationship with him."
"You mean I
had a one night stand?" Elizabeth said.
Lucky looked at
Elizabeth. "You knew this guy, so it wasn't
just a random guy."
Elizabeth sighed.
"I don't want to talk about this anymore." Lucky nodded.
" I understand."
"Can you go?"
Elizabeth asked.
Lucky didn't want to leave Elizabeth by
herself, but he knew that she needed to be alone.
"I'll be right outside if you need me."
"No, Lucky go
home. I don't need you here. Just leave." Elizabeth
said, as
she laid her head on the pillow.
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Later that evening,
Zander was watching Elizabeth.
"When I
am supposed to know when it is my time to help her?" he asked.
His boss looked at him.
"Very soon, I need to be really
careful."
Suddenly Zander saw a man with tattoos and walked into Elizabeth's room and had his hand over her mouth, she was screaming, but nobody was coming for her.
"Who is he? What is he doing to her?"
The boss looked at Zander. "Just keep on watching."
Zander watched as there was another scene, but this time it was of Elizabeth trying to walk and when she tried, she fall onto the ground.
Zander turned to his boss. "What happened? I thought somebody was hurting her."
His boss shakes his head. "Not yet, you have to prevent it, by helping her. You're her guardian angel."
"How I'm supposed to do
that?" Zander asked. His boss looked at him. "I
don't
know, that's up to you. You will figure out a way, or Elizabeth
is
going
to be in big trouble."
"Are you telling me if I
screw up, she is going to be in danger?" The boss
shakes his
head. "I don't know that. This person might still hurt her.
You're only her guardian angel, we can't change things, we
can just help
things. Now go."
Elizabeth
was lying on
the floor. She hated this. She couldn't even get up
without
falling over. What kind of life does she have? Nothing was ever going
to be the same again, she thought to herself.
She suddenly she saw someone standing in front of her. "Can you help me up?" she asked. He looked at her. "I know you don't remember me, but I'm Zander Smith, and I'm here to help you."
To be continued!
